By the following year, it was reported to be losing $30 million a year, and “on watch” by News Corp. for possible shutdown at the end of the year. The Daily laid off nearly a third of its staff in mid-2012, dropping its opinion section and cutting back on its original sports reporting.

As of February 2012, it was the highest-grossing iPad app in Apple’s U.S. App Store, but in mid-2011, it was reported to have 120,000 weekly readers, 80,000 of whom were paying — less than a quarter of what News Corp. estimated it needed to break even. A year after The Daily’s launch, those numbers had grown to a reported 250,000 monthly readers, 100,000 of them paying.

The publication costs 99 cents per week or $40 per year. It was launched with a free trial that was extended for nearly two months. During that trial, The Daily’s publisher, Greg Clayman, said the publication had been downloaded “hundreds of thousands” of times.

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